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PAGE ONE. THE INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL HERALD. VOLUME 35,NUMBER 17. PLAINFIELD, INDIANA. SATURDAY, APRIL, 25, 1936. 52 ISSUES FOR ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF. SIDELINES. By Paul Bergevia. Building Backwards. Every day, many people who are out to accomplish something, try to do something for their own improvement or the improvement of those around them. This formula has been expounded by many people for many years. And it is sometimes startling to realize that it works. Like everything else the development of a human being or the advancement of humanity in general depends on slow careful building with an eye to future accomplishment. A rational person would instantly question the vision of a building contractor who had decided to put the finishing coat of paint on a house he was about to build before the lumber was put together in some shape or other which resembled a house. People would look on with amazement at the farner who would sow his seeds and then begin to plow the field which he just finished sowing. But the same people who would question the farmer's and the building contractor's sanity would scarcely hesitate to notice a man who was buildng himself backwards. Not only character but everything involved in human conduct requires years to constantly applied training whether that training be good or bad. Someone who has the reputation of being a student of children once said "the average child was stubborn, forgetful, cruel, illogical." If we take all those hard words to heart it would indicate that it certainly would take less effort to be a second Jesse James than say, a Benjamin Franklin, because if we average people are all those things without even trying, think of what terrifically bad people we could be if we tried! But I venture to say, unauthoritatively and without a complete knowledge of the situation, that the lady who seemed to lack a reasonable supply of kind words to spew on her fellowmen, was unmarried and mad at the world in general. This somewhat bombastic statement is not without some degree of evidence to support it. While I am not acquainted with the "child expert" who waxes wrath over the average child and its seeming barbarism, I have, at one time or other, been exposed for only a very short while to the ranting of "child" and "home" experts who have neither children or homes, are not in any position to have either, and have lost all hope! So bitter is their resentment that they think everybody is crazy, and they find a couple "girls" at the boarding house to agree with them. Many people who have either lost all they had or see clearly what they could have had pass them due to their own laziness, mental and physical, are in the same position as many of the dubious "home" and "child" experts. Instead of learning by trained observation, they wait for a day when they need information then calling on it, find it conspicuously absent. The next step is to offer some ridiculous conclusion. People who wait for their chance to present itself before they prepare for it, are doomed to more despair than is dealt out to the average human. It is common knowledge that it is easier to do nothing than to strike out for something worthwhile -- that is, at least before one learns the joy of accomplishing things. But in reality human kind is not even today so far advanced in basic things over the lower animals, and if indifference and mental laxity become the rule, since there isn't far to go it won't take long to slide back. ACHIEVEMENT COMES FROM GOOD DREAMS DECLARES CHAPLAIN. By DeWayne Mathias.
For his sermon the afternoon, Rev. Thistlethwaite chose to talk about "Dreams". There are good dreams, and there are bad dreams. We have dreams of the wrong kind of living, we dream of the impossibilities, and yet go on thinking that someday these odd illusions will come true, materially. During the last thirty-five years there have been great strides in material achievement, though no one ever dreamed of such advancement. Thirty-five years ago there were about thirty-five thousand automobiles in the United States. Today that thirty-five thousand has been increased to twenty-five million. Airplanes were never thought of, as mail was very slow in getting here and there. Today giant Clippers zoom overhead, carrying mail everywhere, coast to coast, trans-oceanic, north to south, east to west, all directions, advancement in all things to be seen. What will there be as another thirty-five years roll by? Just as the people of long ago said, so we are saying today, "I can't dream of such a change," but it is coming. Time changes very rapidly. Before the the twinkling of an eye, there are changes unbelieveable. So it is with our dreams. They change without us knowing what we are doing. Some people say that the democracy of America is failing, but is it?What is the real cause, who brought about the change! By looking at this question from it civilized standpoint, you will see that the democracy of America is not failing, it is our selfishness that is tearing America down, selfishness is the thing that has failed in America. Men are grasping, cheating, lying, swindling everything out of their own pockets, yet go right ahead in their malicious ways, thinking they're gaining something. America is a country that believes in democracy. It was the dream of our forefathers, so why can't we make it come true? The Statue of Liberty, standing on the island in New York Harbor, is the first
thing that you see as you make your way to America. This was given to America by France because America is known as the land of opportunity. When a foreigner comes to America this is the Emblem of Liberty. Many, many foreigners who have come to America, had
long dreamed of this country, and longed for the opportunity when this vision would come true. Of the good and bad dreams we have too many bad dreams. Dreaming of selfishness, thieving, sickness, death, wrong-living, poverty, sin, and disease. As we think of the ethical side of wrong living there is too much jealousy, mothers are too careless with their children, not enough love between man and wife, not enough motherly love for the family. Have these things a rightful place among our dreams? Have agony, meanness and cruelty a place in this world of vision, is this the way we want the world to be? This world is just what we make it. If we go out into the world saying we are going to get beat, you're beaten before you ever start out. What should we be striving to do daily in our lives? In our prayers, we daily ask for blessings not obtainable unless we are able to forgive our neighbors of what they have done. We should be striving daily to make our prayers or visions come true. SCOUTS TURN ATTENTION TO FIRST AID PROBLEMS. The Boy Scout meetings are becoming more interesting each week according to the reports from members from Troop One. Meetings are held each Tuesday evening in the armory, and are presided over by Mr. Starken and Mr. Kinder, scoutmasters. The meeting two weeks ago was taken up with (text unreadable)signalling, a second class Scout requirement. Last Tuesday, First Aid was stressed, and an inter-patrol first aid contest was held. The problem was: a boy is unconscious in a burning building, and has a cut on the top of his head, and also a bruised foot. At a given signal, two boys from each patrol entered the "burning" building and rescued the boy, applying the required bandage, and reporting to Mr. Starken when through for a check-up as to correctness of procedure. The Wolf Patrol, with Michener as Patrol Leader, won the contest when both of the entrants from that patrol were considered as two of the three best. There was no instructions given besides the knowledge of First Aid Methods as prescribed by second classs Scouting. An amusing incident connected with the contest was that three teams of rescuers started applying bandages before they had the boy out of the burning building. Several of the teams were disqualified
for applying artifical respiration for unconsciousness; one team put a foot bandage one the ankle; another team forgot that the boy even had an injured foot; one "unconscious" boy of another team sat up and helped his rescuers, thus disqualifying his team. All in all, a splendid time is had by some thirty-odd boys each evening. Next week, a continuation of first aid well be held. A "First Aid Baseball Game" is scheduled for that meeting. The rules for First Aid Baseball are as follows: A soft ball is used; positions of players instead of being catcher, pitcher, first base etc., are bandages; the catcher might be head bandages; the pitcher, arm sling; and so on. The pitcher tosses the ball and the batter attempts to get a hit, just like any other ball game. If he get a two base hit, he isn't safe unless he can tie the kind of bandage which the second baseman represents. If he makes an out he is not out unless the person who puts him out ties the kind of bandage which he represents. Three outs retire a side, and the rest of the rules are the same as baseball. During the last week a craze for overseas caps has struck the school. Sunday the band boys were wearing them and they seemed to be liked so well that our Military Director wore his. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons visited Mr. Lyons' sister in Indianapolis last Sunday. She is the librarian of the Crispus Attucks high school. Mr. and Mrs. Carey E. Smith visited her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dearing, of Indianapolis. Fish and other aquatic animals do not drink water. On to Cleveland, Band. BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO HAS THE ZIPPER. By Mrs. Robert Harrison. Children nowadays don't play the old game of " Button," but then it would he rather difficult to secret a zipper. My first and last attempt at speculation was when I was about eight years old. We moved across the street from a beautiful grove where many robins nested. One Spring morning, I found the ground swarming with young nestlings. I ran home, obtained a chicken coop and proceeded to catch and cage the young birds. When I had filled the coop, which I pulled on my brother's wagon, I took them home, thinking I'd go directly into the bird businese. But imagine my feelings when my mother told me just what I had done. She pointed out that the parent robins who by this time were following me making cries of horror and distress, were being robbed by me of their children. How glad I was to trundle my load of birds back and place them under the trees again. But all robins look alike to me and perhaps some parents were never sure they received their own flesh and feathers. That ended my speculating career. See an ad wanting to make feathers into mattresses. Reckon it would be new if they made mattresses into feathers. Man is pretty smart, but there's a number of things he can't do. See where a group of women are having a luncheon with no speeches. Reckon talk don't count. Mrs. Dionne must feel like an old "dominecker" hen who has just hatched a family of swans. Seems it wouldn't cost the government much more to adopt the entire family. There's a good chance for one of these new fangled complexes, or so it seems to me. I can't help but feel rather sorry for the rest of the family, but I reckon it's one of the prices of fame—she is a hard taskmaster. It's rather like talent. One little talent calls for so much more, temperament and finer feeling, etc. It's like getting an automobile or a baby—the first price is only the beginning. Just as soon as one little sprig of talent appears above the surface, the owner starts right in cultivating atmosphere, just like they hadn't been breathing common air like the rest of us. But fame and talent are two Shylocks who demand their price. If you think you have talent and you ain't queer, you've made a mistake in your diagnosis - you've probably only got broken arches. We are eating potatoes from Cuba. I remember when Dewey went down there and discovered the place and now we're eating their potatoes. Say, folks we better he nice to everyone, no telling whose potatoes we'll need yet. Maybe that neighbor you're not speaking to or yet one you're gossiping about may have to do you a favor soon. A wise man has said: "We never hate only those we have harmed. Selah." I see in Europe, big fish continue to eat the little ones, but then the little ones some times give the big fish an awful stomach ache. Old Ben Franklin said: "If your head is wax, stay out of the sun." ERRORS PAVE THE WAY FOR BISON DEFEAT. By Wilbur R. King. Coach Elmer Wright's Bisons went down to their first defeat of the season Saturday against a nine from Hope, Indiana. The final score was 15 to 8. The reason for the loss lay not so much in the inferiority of the team but in the number of errors committed by the local boys. During the seven innings 10 errors were chalked up against the Bisons. Rak, second sacker leading with three. Michener and Stateler each made two costly slip-ups and McCroskey, Curl and Jackson each erred once. The visiting team proved to be a nice clean-fielding bunch of lads and the end of the game found but one mark in their errors column. The game started with Jackson and Michener as the battery for the home team and Gillard twirling for Hope with R. Herron receiving. The first two innings ran along quite smoothly but the break came in the third. With the score' standing at 2 to 1 in their favor, the visitors laid down a barrage of hits and this, coupled with fielding errors on the part of the home team, resulted in eight tallies crossing the plate in that fateful frame. In the Bison's half of the inning they started to retalitate by laying down a bombardment all their own. The big guns got going but all to no avail. Curd, lead-off man, connected for a two-bagger but was out when he tried to steal home, after making a successful steal of third. Rak was out but McCroskey wangled a walk from the opposing pitcher. Michener, clean up man cracked out a triple that scored Mac. Two singles and a double followed this but these men were caught on base, probably asleep, and put out. They only succeeded in bringing the score up to 10 to 4 in favor of Hope. In the next inning they added three more runs to their total while holding the visitors scoreless. This brought up the score to 10 to 7 and the home team rooters began to brighten up. It seemed that their rally was to die in infancy, however, for the next inning the visiting hurler set them down with three strike-outs. The Hope players meanwhile went to work and got themselves another run in the 4th, three in the 5th and one in the 6th inning. Jackson did a very creditable job of pitching as may be seen by comparing the two moundsmen's records. Jackson allowed 13 hits to the opposition's 11. Both pitchers issued five free tickets to the initial sack. The visiting pitcher struck out 8 men. Jackson whiffed 6. Michener, I. B. S. catcher turned in the best batting average of the game with a single, a double, and a triple in his 4 trips to the plate, giving him a game average of .750. Near the bottom of the score sheet we see in the handwriting of a rueful player — "Special Note: Rak stopped one in first of 7th." We wonder what could have prompted that. The score by innings is as follows: Hope: 1 1 8 1 4 1 0---15 14 1. I.B.S.: 1 0 3 3 0 1 0--- 8 11 10. MORGAN COUNTY AGAIN PROVIDES MATERIAL FOR ENTERTAINMENT. By Robert Hey. Dr. Dill's much spoken of and beloved territorial division, Morgan County was the nucleus of last Sunday's Program. The entertainment was without exception entirely musical. Mr. W. C. Haase arranged for the appearance of Mrs. Hazel Kelso, Director of Music at Martinsville High School, who prepared the program. The three numbers were, respectively, "Red Rover", a march by the Band, the Pledge, and the hymn, "He Keeps Me Singing". Next was an impromptu selection by the Band, "Selection From Prince Charming". This piece was not listed on program sheet, but as Mr. Stanley said, it had proven its popularity on two other occasions, so he chose it for that time. David Barskin, of Martinsville, played for the next number, a piano solo, "Prelude in C Sharp Miner". This was a very difficult piece to play, as were all the Martinsville musician selections. A violin solo, "Prelude in E Flat Major", was then contributed by Charles Cure. He was accompanied in this number by Genevie Baker, another example of the splendid musicians turned out by Martinsville. The next number, a clarinet solo, was rendered by Bob Goss. This piece."Hidden Fantasie", featured all kinds of scales. Bob would run up and down these Chromatic and other kinds of scales as though they were part of him. Owing to illness, the next two people on the program failed to appear. Ruth Cure was to have played a piano solo and Bobby Martin's contribution would have been a Military Dance. The absence of these two was made up by the next number, however. Howard Holmes sang two baritone solos. The initial song was "Volga, Volga", while the second was "The Lilac Tree." Although this program was very brief, it was more than enjoyed by the whole audience. BAND SET TO GO TO ON TO CLEVELAND. The band boys are now looking forward to the state contest at Frankfort next Friday and Saturday. Every one of our representatives who played in the district contest will be eligible for the state contest. There will be some very good bands for our bands to compete against and our boys hope to prove themselves the best. Some of their opponents will be: Knightstown high school, Morton of Knightstown, Union City, Westfield, Danville, Cannelton, Reitz Memorial of Evansville. The winners of the other district are not known yet, but popular opinion concedes this to Rising Sun. Although the contest will be held next Friday and Saturday, May 1st and 2nd, nothing is known as yet as to the sequence of the event. Nothing has been learned of the program but Mr. Stanley is going to Frankfort Sunday afternoon to learn when our boys will be wanted. We give the band our best wishes and hope that they will be one of the two class C bands to make the grade and go on to the national. We know that they have been working hard for this honor and we firmly believe that they can more than hold their own with the best of them. Finally, let us print just once mere those words that have become a byword about the institution in the past few weeks, ON TO CLEVELAND, BAND. The band events in which the local organization will participate in the Central and Southern Indiana State Contest at Frankfort this coming week are listed below. Thursday: Trombone solos, 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. at the Methodist church. Friday: Class C Bands, 8:00 to 11:20 a.m. at Howard Hall. Brass quartets, 10:50 to 11:00 a.m. at the Methodist church. Trombone quartets, 11:20 to 1:35 a.m. at the Methodist church. Saturday: General Parade-Saturday, 4:30 p.m. It is required that all bands participate or forfeit their awards. Awards will be announced at the close of the parade. The Marching contest will be held on the football field Friday night, May 1st at 7:00 p. m. Awards will be given in each class in the following divisions: Best playing band on the march; Best marching band; Best uniformed band; Best drum major; Best all-around band. First division will include class D, C and E bands. Second division will be class B bands. Third division will be class A bands.

PAGE ONE. THE INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL HERALD. VOLUME 35,NUMBER 17. PLAINFIELD, INDIANA. SATURDAY, APRIL, 25, 1936. 52 ISSUES FOR ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF. SIDELINES. By Paul Bergevia. Building Backwards. Every day, many people who are out to accomplish something, try to do something for their own improvement or the improvement of those around them. This formula has been expounded by many people for many years. And it is sometimes startling to realize that it works. Like everything else the development of a human being or the advancement of humanity in general depends on slow careful building with an eye to future accomplishment. A rational person would instantly question the vision of a building contractor who had decided to put the finishing coat of paint on a house he was about to build before the lumber was put together in some shape or other which resembled a house. People would look on with amazement at the farner who would sow his seeds and then begin to plow the field which he just finished sowing. But the same people who would question the farmer's and the building contractor's sanity would scarcely hesitate to notice a man who was buildng himself backwards. Not only character but everything involved in human conduct requires years to constantly applied training whether that training be good or bad. Someone who has the reputation of being a student of children once said "the average child was stubborn, forgetful, cruel, illogical." If we take all those hard words to heart it would indicate that it certainly would take less effort to be a second Jesse James than say, a Benjamin Franklin, because if we average people are all those things without even trying, think of what terrifically bad people we could be if we tried! But I venture to say, unauthoritatively and without a complete knowledge of the situation, that the lady who seemed to lack a reasonable supply of kind words to spew on her fellowmen, was unmarried and mad at the world in general. This somewhat bombastic statement is not without some degree of evidence to support it. While I am not acquainted with the "child expert" who waxes wrath over the average child and its seeming barbarism, I have, at one time or other, been exposed for only a very short while to the ranting of "child" and "home" experts who have neither children or homes, are not in any position to have either, and have lost all hope! So bitter is their resentment that they think everybody is crazy, and they find a couple "girls" at the boarding house to agree with them. Many people who have either lost all they had or see clearly what they could have had pass them due to their own laziness, mental and physical, are in the same position as many of the dubious "home" and "child" experts. Instead of learning by trained observation, they wait for a day when they need information then calling on it, find it conspicuously absent. The next step is to offer some ridiculous conclusion. People who wait for their chance to present itself before they prepare for it, are doomed to more despair than is dealt out to the average human. It is common knowledge that it is easier to do nothing than to strike out for something worthwhile -- that is, at least before one learns the joy of accomplishing things. But in reality human kind is not even today so far advanced in basic things over the lower animals, and if indifference and mental laxity become the rule, since there isn't far to go it won't take long to slide back. ACHIEVEMENT COMES FROM GOOD DREAMS DECLARES CHAPLAIN. By DeWayne Mathias.
For his sermon the afternoon, Rev. Thistlethwaite chose to talk about "Dreams". There are good dreams, and there are bad dreams. We have dreams of the wrong kind of living, we dream of the impossibilities, and yet go on thinking that someday these odd illusions will come true, materially. During the last thirty-five years there have been great strides in material achievement, though no one ever dreamed of such advancement. Thirty-five years ago there were about thirty-five thousand automobiles in the United States. Today that thirty-five thousand has been increased to twenty-five million. Airplanes were never thought of, as mail was very slow in getting here and there. Today giant Clippers zoom overhead, carrying mail everywhere, coast to coast, trans-oceanic, north to south, east to west, all directions, advancement in all things to be seen. What will there be as another thirty-five years roll by? Just as the people of long ago said, so we are saying today, "I can't dream of such a change," but it is coming. Time changes very rapidly. Before the the twinkling of an eye, there are changes unbelieveable. So it is with our dreams. They change without us knowing what we are doing. Some people say that the democracy of America is failing, but is it?What is the real cause, who brought about the change! By looking at this question from it civilized standpoint, you will see that the democracy of America is not failing, it is our selfishness that is tearing America down, selfishness is the thing that has failed in America. Men are grasping, cheating, lying, swindling everything out of their own pockets, yet go right ahead in their malicious ways, thinking they're gaining something. America is a country that believes in democracy. It was the dream of our forefathers, so why can't we make it come true? The Statue of Liberty, standing on the island in New York Harbor, is the first
thing that you see as you make your way to America. This was given to America by France because America is known as the land of opportunity. When a foreigner comes to America this is the Emblem of Liberty. Many, many foreigners who have come to America, had
long dreamed of this country, and longed for the opportunity when this vision would come true. Of the good and bad dreams we have too many bad dreams. Dreaming of selfishness, thieving, sickness, death, wrong-living, poverty, sin, and disease. As we think of the ethical side of wrong living there is too much jealousy, mothers are too careless with their children, not enough love between man and wife, not enough motherly love for the family. Have these things a rightful place among our dreams? Have agony, meanness and cruelty a place in this world of vision, is this the way we want the world to be? This world is just what we make it. If we go out into the world saying we are going to get beat, you're beaten before you ever start out. What should we be striving to do daily in our lives? In our prayers, we daily ask for blessings not obtainable unless we are able to forgive our neighbors of what they have done. We should be striving daily to make our prayers or visions come true. SCOUTS TURN ATTENTION TO FIRST AID PROBLEMS. The Boy Scout meetings are becoming more interesting each week according to the reports from members from Troop One. Meetings are held each Tuesday evening in the armory, and are presided over by Mr. Starken and Mr. Kinder, scoutmasters. The meeting two weeks ago was taken up with (text unreadable)signalling, a second class Scout requirement. Last Tuesday, First Aid was stressed, and an inter-patrol first aid contest was held. The problem was: a boy is unconscious in a burning building, and has a cut on the top of his head, and also a bruised foot. At a given signal, two boys from each patrol entered the "burning" building and rescued the boy, applying the required bandage, and reporting to Mr. Starken when through for a check-up as to correctness of procedure. The Wolf Patrol, with Michener as Patrol Leader, won the contest when both of the entrants from that patrol were considered as two of the three best. There was no instructions given besides the knowledge of First Aid Methods as prescribed by second classs Scouting. An amusing incident connected with the contest was that three teams of rescuers started applying bandages before they had the boy out of the burning building. Several of the teams were disqualified
for applying artifical respiration for unconsciousness; one team put a foot bandage one the ankle; another team forgot that the boy even had an injured foot; one "unconscious" boy of another team sat up and helped his rescuers, thus disqualifying his team. All in all, a splendid time is had by some thirty-odd boys each evening. Next week, a continuation of first aid well be held. A "First Aid Baseball Game" is scheduled for that meeting. The rules for First Aid Baseball are as follows: A soft ball is used; positions of players instead of being catcher, pitcher, first base etc., are bandages; the catcher might be head bandages; the pitcher, arm sling; and so on. The pitcher tosses the ball and the batter attempts to get a hit, just like any other ball game. If he get a two base hit, he isn't safe unless he can tie the kind of bandage which the second baseman represents. If he makes an out he is not out unless the person who puts him out ties the kind of bandage which he represents. Three outs retire a side, and the rest of the rules are the same as baseball. During the last week a craze for overseas caps has struck the school. Sunday the band boys were wearing them and they seemed to be liked so well that our Military Director wore his. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons visited Mr. Lyons' sister in Indianapolis last Sunday. She is the librarian of the Crispus Attucks high school. Mr. and Mrs. Carey E. Smith visited her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dearing, of Indianapolis. Fish and other aquatic animals do not drink water. On to Cleveland, Band. BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO HAS THE ZIPPER. By Mrs. Robert Harrison. Children nowadays don't play the old game of " Button," but then it would he rather difficult to secret a zipper. My first and last attempt at speculation was when I was about eight years old. We moved across the street from a beautiful grove where many robins nested. One Spring morning, I found the ground swarming with young nestlings. I ran home, obtained a chicken coop and proceeded to catch and cage the young birds. When I had filled the coop, which I pulled on my brother's wagon, I took them home, thinking I'd go directly into the bird businese. But imagine my feelings when my mother told me just what I had done. She pointed out that the parent robins who by this time were following me making cries of horror and distress, were being robbed by me of their children. How glad I was to trundle my load of birds back and place them under the trees again. But all robins look alike to me and perhaps some parents were never sure they received their own flesh and feathers. That ended my speculating career. See an ad wanting to make feathers into mattresses. Reckon it would be new if they made mattresses into feathers. Man is pretty smart, but there's a number of things he can't do. See where a group of women are having a luncheon with no speeches. Reckon talk don't count. Mrs. Dionne must feel like an old "dominecker" hen who has just hatched a family of swans. Seems it wouldn't cost the government much more to adopt the entire family. There's a good chance for one of these new fangled complexes, or so it seems to me. I can't help but feel rather sorry for the rest of the family, but I reckon it's one of the prices of fame—she is a hard taskmaster. It's rather like talent. One little talent calls for so much more, temperament and finer feeling, etc. It's like getting an automobile or a baby—the first price is only the beginning. Just as soon as one little sprig of talent appears above the surface, the owner starts right in cultivating atmosphere, just like they hadn't been breathing common air like the rest of us. But fame and talent are two Shylocks who demand their price. If you think you have talent and you ain't queer, you've made a mistake in your diagnosis - you've probably only got broken arches. We are eating potatoes from Cuba. I remember when Dewey went down there and discovered the place and now we're eating their potatoes. Say, folks we better he nice to everyone, no telling whose potatoes we'll need yet. Maybe that neighbor you're not speaking to or yet one you're gossiping about may have to do you a favor soon. A wise man has said: "We never hate only those we have harmed. Selah." I see in Europe, big fish continue to eat the little ones, but then the little ones some times give the big fish an awful stomach ache. Old Ben Franklin said: "If your head is wax, stay out of the sun." ERRORS PAVE THE WAY FOR BISON DEFEAT. By Wilbur R. King. Coach Elmer Wright's Bisons went down to their first defeat of the season Saturday against a nine from Hope, Indiana. The final score was 15 to 8. The reason for the loss lay not so much in the inferiority of the team but in the number of errors committed by the local boys. During the seven innings 10 errors were chalked up against the Bisons. Rak, second sacker leading with three. Michener and Stateler each made two costly slip-ups and McCroskey, Curl and Jackson each erred once. The visiting team proved to be a nice clean-fielding bunch of lads and the end of the game found but one mark in their errors column. The game started with Jackson and Michener as the battery for the home team and Gillard twirling for Hope with R. Herron receiving. The first two innings ran along quite smoothly but the break came in the third. With the score' standing at 2 to 1 in their favor, the visitors laid down a barrage of hits and this, coupled with fielding errors on the part of the home team, resulted in eight tallies crossing the plate in that fateful frame. In the Bison's half of the inning they started to retalitate by laying down a bombardment all their own. The big guns got going but all to no avail. Curd, lead-off man, connected for a two-bagger but was out when he tried to steal home, after making a successful steal of third. Rak was out but McCroskey wangled a walk from the opposing pitcher. Michener, clean up man cracked out a triple that scored Mac. Two singles and a double followed this but these men were caught on base, probably asleep, and put out. They only succeeded in bringing the score up to 10 to 4 in favor of Hope. In the next inning they added three more runs to their total while holding the visitors scoreless. This brought up the score to 10 to 7 and the home team rooters began to brighten up. It seemed that their rally was to die in infancy, however, for the next inning the visiting hurler set them down with three strike-outs. The Hope players meanwhile went to work and got themselves another run in the 4th, three in the 5th and one in the 6th inning. Jackson did a very creditable job of pitching as may be seen by comparing the two moundsmen's records. Jackson allowed 13 hits to the opposition's 11. Both pitchers issued five free tickets to the initial sack. The visiting pitcher struck out 8 men. Jackson whiffed 6. Michener, I. B. S. catcher turned in the best batting average of the game with a single, a double, and a triple in his 4 trips to the plate, giving him a game average of .750. Near the bottom of the score sheet we see in the handwriting of a rueful player — "Special Note: Rak stopped one in first of 7th." We wonder what could have prompted that. The score by innings is as follows: Hope: 1 1 8 1 4 1 0---15 14 1. I.B.S.: 1 0 3 3 0 1 0--- 8 11 10. MORGAN COUNTY AGAIN PROVIDES MATERIAL FOR ENTERTAINMENT. By Robert Hey. Dr. Dill's much spoken of and beloved territorial division, Morgan County was the nucleus of last Sunday's Program. The entertainment was without exception entirely musical. Mr. W. C. Haase arranged for the appearance of Mrs. Hazel Kelso, Director of Music at Martinsville High School, who prepared the program. The three numbers were, respectively, "Red Rover", a march by the Band, the Pledge, and the hymn, "He Keeps Me Singing". Next was an impromptu selection by the Band, "Selection From Prince Charming". This piece was not listed on program sheet, but as Mr. Stanley said, it had proven its popularity on two other occasions, so he chose it for that time. David Barskin, of Martinsville, played for the next number, a piano solo, "Prelude in C Sharp Miner". This was a very difficult piece to play, as were all the Martinsville musician selections. A violin solo, "Prelude in E Flat Major", was then contributed by Charles Cure. He was accompanied in this number by Genevie Baker, another example of the splendid musicians turned out by Martinsville. The next number, a clarinet solo, was rendered by Bob Goss. This piece."Hidden Fantasie", featured all kinds of scales. Bob would run up and down these Chromatic and other kinds of scales as though they were part of him. Owing to illness, the next two people on the program failed to appear. Ruth Cure was to have played a piano solo and Bobby Martin's contribution would have been a Military Dance. The absence of these two was made up by the next number, however. Howard Holmes sang two baritone solos. The initial song was "Volga, Volga", while the second was "The Lilac Tree." Although this program was very brief, it was more than enjoyed by the whole audience. BAND SET TO GO TO ON TO CLEVELAND. The band boys are now looking forward to the state contest at Frankfort next Friday and Saturday. Every one of our representatives who played in the district contest will be eligible for the state contest. There will be some very good bands for our bands to compete against and our boys hope to prove themselves the best. Some of their opponents will be: Knightstown high school, Morton of Knightstown, Union City, Westfield, Danville, Cannelton, Reitz Memorial of Evansville. The winners of the other district are not known yet, but popular opinion concedes this to Rising Sun. Although the contest will be held next Friday and Saturday, May 1st and 2nd, nothing is known as yet as to the sequence of the event. Nothing has been learned of the program but Mr. Stanley is going to Frankfort Sunday afternoon to learn when our boys will be wanted. We give the band our best wishes and hope that they will be one of the two class C bands to make the grade and go on to the national. We know that they have been working hard for this honor and we firmly believe that they can more than hold their own with the best of them. Finally, let us print just once mere those words that have become a byword about the institution in the past few weeks, ON TO CLEVELAND, BAND. The band events in which the local organization will participate in the Central and Southern Indiana State Contest at Frankfort this coming week are listed below. Thursday: Trombone solos, 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. at the Methodist church. Friday: Class C Bands, 8:00 to 11:20 a.m. at Howard Hall. Brass quartets, 10:50 to 11:00 a.m. at the Methodist church. Trombone quartets, 11:20 to 1:35 a.m. at the Methodist church. Saturday: General Parade-Saturday, 4:30 p.m. It is required that all bands participate or forfeit their awards. Awards will be announced at the close of the parade. The Marching contest will be held on the football field Friday night, May 1st at 7:00 p. m. Awards will be given in each class in the following divisions: Best playing band on the march; Best marching band; Best uniformed band; Best drum major; Best all-around band. First division will include class D, C and E bands. Second division will be class B bands. Third division will be class A bands.